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Originally Posted by kevmartin I don't get it - what's the big deal about some drawings? Are they somehow mocking the muslim faith? |
It's kind of taboo to draw Mohammad or God in Islam. And by "kind of" taboo, I mean pretty damn taboo.
The idea is that it might lead to idolatry, and idolatry is a major no-no in Islam. I was just in India a few weeks ago, and the easiest way to tell a Hindu temple from a mosque in the absence of prior knowledge was to look at the decoration. There were no identifiable images on or in the mosques- it was all abstract and geometrical, because they don't want
anything that might potentially be an idol.